To ask the Scottish Executive whether water below the surface of the ground in a peatland is groundwater, as defined in section 3(4) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill, and, if so, why the inclusion of wetlands in the definition of the water environment extends the land area covered by the bill, as referred to by the Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development at the Transport and the Environment Committee during the Stage 2 consideration of the bill on 20 November 2002 (Official Report, c 3749).